The collected poems of j.r.r. tolkien

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J.

R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.

Lord of the rings poem one ring

Its three volumes contain some 900 versions of 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished.

Reviewers have echoed the editors' remark that readers too easily skip over the poems, finding them a distraction, when actually the poems contribute substantially and in multiple ways to the reader's understanding of character and mood.

Holly Ordway finds the poems valuable, delightful, and moving. John R. Holmes, while enjoying many philological details, objects to the substantial amount of repetition in the book with overlapping drafts and lengthy scholarly presentation.

Christian Kriticos further notes the habit of the Tolkien Estate to release snippets of new material alongside substantial amounts that had already been publis